Technoromanticism: Digital Narrative, Holism, and the Romance of the Real (Leonardo Series)

By Richard Coyne

Book Overview

Explores the spectrum of romantic narrative that pervades the digital age, from McLuhan's utopian vision of social reintegration by electronic communication to claims that cyberspace creates new realities. The book serves as an introduction to the application of contemporary theory to information technology, raising issues of representation, space, time, interpretation, identity and the real.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262032600
• ISBN13: 9780262032605
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.3" x 6.0"